I became a sports fan when I was a teen, when my three best friends and I started up the sports medicine program at our high school. We added the task of stat-keeping to our usual ankle-taping and nose-bleed-plugging duties, so I learned a lot about the in's and out's of most sports. I'm not coordinated or in shape enough to play anything myself, but I LOVE football and NCAA basketball (not a fan of the NBA), and later added baseball to the list.
My husband, however, doesn't like sports. Yes, I'm serious. He's an anomaly.
He'll watch baseball occasionally, and grew up as an Orioles fan. He played hockey as a kid. He has a strong interest in martial arts (he studied Jeet Kune Do and Silat for a little while) and loves UFC. But he can't stand football or basketball. GAH.
I also have the added problem that my teams are on the west coast, but I live in Ohio. So it's all Buckeyes, all the time out here, and it's difficult to be a Huskies/Mariners/Seahawks fan (or Trojans/Broncos, but shhh, don't tell) simply due to the fact that their games aren't usually aired. So I've completely lost track of sports.
Hence my addiction to crime dramas and gardening, I guess.
Well at least you aren't missing anything in the way of the Mariners. We haven't been decent enough to watch religiously since, FOREVER!
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Damn you Mariners.
that must be kinda hard, i grew up being a sports fan, playing sports and now sports are on in my house all. the. time. the only time it really sucks is when my husband and i are rooting for different teams, like this past weekend when uconn played notre dame...it was not pretty!
ReplyDeleteI think part of it is that our friends around here don't watch sports either, and for me watching a game is a group-event. I don't like watching games by myself, otherwise I'd bogart the TV all weekend.
ReplyDeleteIndians are in the same boat... baseball is so frustrating to me, especially this season when we traded Cliff Lee AND CC Sabathia, and voila, they're both in the fracking world series. Duuuhhh.
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